August 1st Card Sketch ~ SOUS ~

Hello, there, bloggers! I hope that you are having a great week so far! Can you believe that it is the first day of August already? Where has this Summer gone?? Of course, here is Texas August is usually one of our hottest months, so we are not even thinking Fall yet.

So, enough of that! Today it is Card Challenge Reveal Day over at Stuck on U Sketches and our DT has done another great job! Seriously, we have some talented people on our team! We also have another great card sketch, done this time by Guest Designer and former team member Debbie Burns. You can visit her blog HERE. She is one talented lady and we are always excited to have her around! Thanks, Debbie!

We also have another Guest Designer with us for the month of August. Her name is Clare Fordham-Drakes. You can visit her blog HERE. She does amazing work, so you'll want to be sure and visit her. 

For my card I've chosen some older Pink Paislee Butterfly Garden papers. This was such a beautiful collection I'm sad to see it go. But here it brought a nice demure look to my card. The trims are also older stash but are from Websters Pages. The teal ribbon made for such a nice, soft bow which I topped with a Petaloo Canterbury rose bloom in teal. Then I added in some leafy branches already cut using my Sizzix die.

My sentiment is a Heartfelt Creations stamp which I love. The Script look really appeals to me. It is stamped on white card stock and then cut and embossed with my Spellbinders Labels 4 Die.   It was then mounted on a larger cut of the same die on some of the PP paper. They were both adhered with foam squares for dimension. The shading was done with my ColorBox chalk ink.

I finished the card with a silver Theresa Collins alterations embellishment and a few flat backed pearls. The inside of the card merely has a matching PP pattern paper as lining at this point, so it is ready for me to adhere any type of message when it is ready to be mailed out.

Thanks for coming by today! I hope that you will pop over to Stuck on U and see what the rest of the Design team has done this time around. But mostly, we can't wait for you to participate and upload your own new project following the sketch!

Have a scrap happy week!